1948 Democratic Party presidential primaries

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1948 Democratic Party presidential primaries

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Candidate Harry S. Truman William Alexander Julian Harley M. Kilgore Home state Missouri Ohio West Virginia Contests won 8 0 1 Popular vote 1,419,875 271,146 157,102 Percentage 64.7% 12.5% 7.2%

Previous Democratic nominee Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic nominee Harry S. Truman

From March 9 to June 1, 1948, voters of the Democratic Party elected delegates to the 1948 Democratic National Convention where the party chose its nominee for president in the 1948 United States presidential election.^[1] Incumbent President Harry S. Truman was selected as the nominee through a series of primary elections and caucuses culminating in the 1948 Democratic National Convention held from July 12 to July 14, 1948, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.